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She anticipated hiht before

her, seeing nothing

"I aesture, "if it must be"

He did not answer

"If it h And her

chin dropped on her breast Then, abruptly, suddenly--it was a strange

thing to see--she looked up A change as coe which

had come over Count Hannibal a

to his side; she clutched his arm and devoured his face with her eyes

"You are not deceiving nonville below?

You--oh, no, no!" And she fell back frorown suddenly shrill and defiant, "You have not! You are

deceiving me! He has escaped, and you have lied to me!"

"I?"

"Yes, you have lied to me!" It was the last fierce flicker of hope when

hope see at the straw that

floated before the eyes

He laughed harshly "You will be ive me the lie? A week, and you will know me better! A month,

and--but ill talk of that another ti to La Tribe, "do you, sir, tell her that the gentleman

is below Perhaps she will believe you For you know him"

La Tribe looked at her sorrowfully; his heart bled for her "I have seen